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Brendon said: “The girls were screaming 'Get off him, get off him.' One of them was filming another kid being beaten up. They saw me, and then they saw the police drive past, then they freaked out and scarpered.

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“I am just shocked that this seems to be the thing that these kids are doing nowadays. They are filming people being beaten up and deciding to put it on social media.

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"I feel let down"

“What I want to say is that not all children and young people are bad.

"Over the summer I saw some kids trying to burn the dry grass and I told them to pack it up as we will not have a nice place to live if it is being abused, the next time I saw these children they were picking up the litter around the park.

Brendon O'Donnell from Matson

“When kids video violence for social media then I feel let down."

A Gloucestershire Police spokesperson said: "We were called at around 6.45pm on Sunday 3 December with reports there were a group of youths in a play area in Matson shouting/screaming. Officers attended and the group dispersed.

"The caller pointed out the area the youths were and officers conducted an extensive search but could find no evidence of disorder."